Belize: ST. GEORGE'S CAY DAY.
Commemorates a victory for the indigenous Miskito Indians & British settlers over a superior Spanish force on an expedition to drive the British mahogany loggers out of the area.

1846 -- US: Following the failure of all Mormons to leave Nauvoo, Illinois in May as agreed to after the assassination of Joseph Smith & his brother in Carthage, Illinois two years ago, a thousand anti-Mormon "Regulators" led by Colonel Thomas Brockman order the first assault on the remaining Mormons at Nauvoo. Regulator cannon fire drives Mormon families from their homes towards the Mississippi River. See also September 12.

1857 -- US: Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Mormons offer to escort a Gentile train passing through Utah to safety from the Indians, then line up all the adult males in single file with a Mormon guide on each side, &, at a prearranged signal, massacre them all in cold blood. Mormon Militia, disguised as Indians, & the real Indians, moved in on the women & older children, shooting, clubbing & tomahawking them to death.

1862 -- US: Four months after US Congress amends its law requiring all Army chaplains to be Christians, Rabbi Jacob Frankel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, becomes the first Jewish Army chaplain.

1866 -- Poet/novelist Jeppe Aakjaer lives. Leading exponent of Danish regional literature & literature of social consciousness, he wrote of the harsh conditions endured by farm laborers but is best known for his poetry, especially those collected in Fri felt (Free Fields, 1905) & Rugens sange (Songs of the Rye, 1906).

The Imagists held three principles: direct treatment of the subject, allow no word that was not essential to the presentation, & follow the musical phrase rather than strict regularity in their rhythms.

1888 -- Author Ian Fleming lives.

1890 -- Franz Werfel lives, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Expressionist-influenced poet, dramatist, novelist. Wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh & The Song of Bernadette. Met Franz Kafka. Married Alma Maria Schindler, the widow of Gustav Mahler. Lived in Austria until 1938, when Nazi occupation forced him into exile. Died August 26, 1945.

They take your very life blood & they take our children's lives
They take fathers away from children & husbands away from wives
Oh miner, won't you organize wherever you may be
& make this a land of freedom for workers like you & me

Dear miner, they will slave you until you can't work no more
& what'll you get for your living but a dollar in a company store
A tumble-down shack to live in, snow & rain pours in the top
You have to pay the company rent, your paying never stops

I am a coal miner's wife, I'm sure I wish you well
Let's sink this capitalist system in the darkest pits of hell

"But the weirdest thing was certainly the way he looked while pissing. Since he could not see anything, his pupils very frequently pointed up into space, shifting under the lids, & this happened particularly when he pissed. Furthermore, he had huge, ever gaping eyes that flanked an eagle nose, & those huge eyes went almost entirely blank when he pissed, with a completely stupefying expression of abandon & aberration in a world that he alone could see & that aroused his vaguely sardonic & absent laugh.... In any case, the image of those white eyes from that time was directly linked, for me, to the image of eggs..."

1917 -- US: Upon Alexander Berkman's release from prison on $25,000 bail, he is falsely arrested for murder in connection with the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco.

Prompted by demonstrations in Russia, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Liberal President Wilson later orders a federal investigation of the case.

1919 -- Egypt: This month (exact day unknown), following a summer of strikes, the Italian workers, Max di Collalto (publisher of Roma & member of the Socite Internationale des Employes du Caire) & Giuseppe Pizzuto, a revolutionary socialist of the printers union, are both deported. http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/egypt.htm

1921 -- Spain: Eugenio Martínez Fernández is detained, & later prosecuted, for publishing the clandestine CNT publication, Solidaridad Obrera. The anarcho-syndicalist CNT union is suppressed by the government during this period & many of its confederal groups decimated, but maintains itself underground, & manages to continue publishing Solidaridad Obrera. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#BarcelonaCronica

1939 -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz lives. Educator, feminist activist, militant & writer. Dunbar-Ortiz's grandfather was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), & for the Oklahoma Socialist Party during its brief era of success. Worked closely with the SDS, Weather Underground, & the African National Congress. She has published three memoirs, including Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997) & Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 (2002). http://www.reddirtsite.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_Dunbar-Ortiz

1965 -- US: God is Dead? Father Divine dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Divine, born George Baker, was the founder of the Peace Mission, a religious group whose followers worshiped Divine as God incarnate on earth.

Homelike services are rendered by the Hotel staff: spotless living quarters, a wholesome atmosphere & operating under the spiritual jurisdiction of FATHER & MOTHER DIVINE. No smoking, drinking, obscenity, profanity, vulgarity, undue mixing of sexes, receiving of gifts, presents, tips or bribes.

1969 -- US: Wiretap is placed, under White House orders, on CBS correspondent Marvin Kalb. Dey get the news first.

1973 -- Commemorative stamp of Henry Ossawa Tanner issued by the US Postal Service. Part of its American Arts issue, the stamp celebrates his work & accomplishments. The first African-American artist elected to the National Academy of Design.

The most talented member of the Hollywood Ten, a group who refused to testify before the 1947 US House Committee on Un-American Activities about alleged communist involvement. He was blacklisted & spent 11 months in prison. After his blacklisting, he wrote 30 scripts under 13 pseudonyms.

What is it . . . which delivers the leaders of a
great nation into such an excess of hysteria that
they fear & actually assert their power to
prohibit the utterance of any word which may be
spoken in opposition to their purposes?

1977 -- France: Close Shave? Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murderer, becomes the last person executed with the guillotine in France.

1979 -- Patti Smith plays the biggest concert of her career in Florence, Italy to 85,000 people. She tells the crowd it is her final show so that she can retire at age 32 to begin life with husband Fred "Sonic" Smith. Shuns the apron, returns to performing a decade later.

1984 -- US: Obviously irritated that his slippery position on abortion has become an issue, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George "Large" Bush refuses to answer any more questions on the subject, citing "my right as an American to remain silent."

The kidnapping draws criticism from European & Latin American governments, but an October 24th prisoner exchange wins freedom for 20 rebel leaders & wounded insurgents. The guerrillas release photographs & tape recordings indicating a certain sympathy for the rebel cause from Senora Duarte Duran, driving a wedge between President Duarte & his backers in the army & oligarchy.

Eat the State! runs a "Reclaim Our History" calendar based on 5,000 dates/events collected by Geoff Parrish &, in 1997, the Daily Bleed, with a then similar size collection, exchanges databases, substantially improving each others victuals. In 2010 the paper becomes an online-only publication.

1996 -- Sheryl Crow's self-titled 2nd album is banned in Wal-Mart stores because of the song, "Love Is A Good Thing." The song mentions children killing each other with "a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores."

1998 --

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Keiko the Whale was tragically killed as the C-17 he was being transported in crashed after takeoff. Horrified onlookers watched in horror as the plane pitched nose up, paused as if frozen in air, then executing one last mighty flip, piledrived itself into the tarmac. Children screamed, women wailed, men blubbered.

The mood shifted dramatically when a black cloud of noxious fumes & soot (9000 lbs. of Killer Whale, co-mingled with 2,000 lbs. of crew, stirfried in 100,000 of jet fuel) descended upon them.

The Air Force covered this up, not wanting to look bad, by flying Keiko's evil twin brother (Seiko, time being critical) in his stead. A spokesman dismissed the incident as a fluke.

2000 -- When West was finally awakened, he did not see the face of his servant, but the face of a stranger, who identified himself as Dr. Leete.

West found himself in a house he had never before seen & when he demanded an explanation, the reluctant Dr. Leete told him the date was September 10, 2000. West had slept for 133 years, three months, & 11 days.

2003 -- México: Korean farmer Lee Kyung-Hae dies, in a ritualized suicide during WTO protests, in Cancun. A former President of the Federation of Farmers & Fishermen of Korea, Lee's message? "WTO Kills Farmers."

There is nothing new when someone affirms that the nihilistic tyranny of the spectacle could be faced & fought by "talking big & telling tall stories," i.e. by raising a whirl of fibs & lies "till a communication short-circuit dissipates the virtual world & the real one will settle again" (Paul Virilio). In fact, a radical criticism of the world order, & even the right to criticize, was an achievement by the "plagiarist" pirates of the past centuries, i.e. by rascals, buffoons & court jesters.